Foreign Exchange

Chapter 3: I know you, but you don't know me

Yeah, that didn't feel good.

After having been rammed into by a red blur and getting knocked onto his ass, Shavo opened his eyes to see a pair of silver orbs inches from his own. bringing his head back a bit, he saw a feminine face with a pale complexion and reddish black hair with bangs that went down to her chin.

That's when he realized he was staring into the face of none other than Ruby Rose.

Realizing she was laying down on top of him, Shavo looked around uncertainly before looking back at her.

"Sooooo…. You gonna get up, or…?" He asked. That's when she realized the position they were in and jumped off of him as her face began to get as red as her namesake.

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry!" She tried to apologize as she fumbled around with her words, "I-I didn't look where I was going, a-and I just-I'm so sorry!"

Shavo would have told her it was fine, but was preoccupied at the moment. You see, when Ruby jumped back up, she just so happened to use a very painful place to jump off of. So it took Ruby a second to realize the reason why the guy she just ran into wasn't responding because he was angry, but because she had propelled herself off of this poor stranger's unmentionables.

"Auuughhh… My children…" He groaned out, trying to get his breath back.

Ruby was completely lost for words, not knowing what to say now except for sputter incoherently. That was when she realized that she had accidently sent the guy's clothes flying out of his luggage and decided to start help picking those up before they were trampled by other people going to their flights.

Once most of the pain had subsided, Shavo attempted to get back up, and did so successfully. Then he realized that Ruby freaking Rose was picking up his scattered clothes for him and crouched back down to assist.

Once they had gotten them all, he stuffed them all back into his luggage as Ruby stood by sheepishly until he finished and turned to face the girl.

"I'm really, really, really, really, really sorry." She apologized, looking like she wasn't quite sure what to do.

"Woah, chill." He tried to assure the girl, having to withhold his own excitement at meeting one of his practical idols. He wasn't doing a good job, seeing as how he had a smile as he held his hands up in a 'wait' gesture, "It's fine. Shit happens, man."

Ruby scratched the back of her head, chuckling uncertainly as she looks around, still not sure of what to do. Luckily for her, another voice came in to save her from further embarrassment.

"Jeez Ruby, I know I said we have to hurry, but I didn't mean for you to just leave me like that!"

The two of them turned to the source of the voice to see a tall blond girl about Shavo's age with wild hair that went down to the small of her back with Lilac eyes. The two of them also recognized the girl instantly.

It was none other than Yang Xiao Long, jogging with a bag in each hand and two on her back as she caught up to her sister.

"Oh, uh, sorry sis!" Ruby said as she turned to face her older sibling, Shavo being momentarily forgotten, "I was just, uhhh… Making sure someone didn't take our spot on the Bullhead! Yeah… Take our spot… He heh."

Yang didn't look convinced at her sister's attempt at an excuse as she grinned and crossed her arms.

"Or you just kept on running when you shouldn't have and barreled into this guy over here."

She said as she hiked a thumb at Shavo. Said guy tried his best to not look like a idiot and start staring at yet another of his favorite characters from his favorite show. Instead, he opted to act like he was checking his suitcase clasps in case of another person coming flying at him. Yang grinned at the sheepish man before walking up to him and getting his attention. Looking up from his crouched position, he saw her looking down before crouching down as well to get eye-level with him and holding out her hand.

"Sorry about that, by the way. My sister can be a dork like that sometimes." She apologized.

"Hey, I'm not a dork!" Ruby waved her arms in mock offense, but went unnoticed as Shavo looked at the hand stretched before him, then at it's owner before flashing a nervous grin and accepting the handshake.

"I-It's no problem." He stuttered out before clearing his throat and trying again. "Uhh, name's Shavarsh Odadjian. You can just call me Shavo."

"Shavo, huh? Never heard that one before." Yang commented on the stranger's unique name before standing up. Not wanting to look weird, Shavo followed suit. "Well, now that we're here, we may want to get on the Bullhead before it takes off without us."

"Yeah, wouldn't want to miss our first day of Beacon." Shavo remarked, still awestruck by the fact he was actually talking to these people. As Yang and Ruby turned to walk away, he looked around, uncertain of what to do. He didn't want to look needy and ask if he could sit with them, but at the same time, he didn't want to-

"Hey." Shavo was broken from his musings by a smiling Yang as she and her sister had turned back to face him, nodding in the direction of the Bullhead, "Wanna come sit next to us? Unless, you know, you're waiting for someone."

Shavo shook his head 'no', thankful for the offer to come with.

"Nah, I don't have anyone coming." He said before walking up to them, "Thanks."

"No problem, big guy." Yang responded as she clapped him on the back, causing him to nearly lose his balance from the force. "Sides, think of it as an apology for Ruby plowing into you."

"Yaaaaaang, Shaydaaaaap!" Said crimsonette whined as she stuck her tongue out at her elder sister while the trio boarded their ship. While the two sisters bickered, Shavo looked around dreamily at the sleek interior of the ship, the design reminding him of ancient Victorian architecture with the shape of the windows and the all around bright atmosphere. Then again, the show always was animated with bright and eye-catching colors.

Noticing the amazed looks the new guy was giving the ship, Yang gave a short chuckle.

"Jeez, you act like you've never seen a Bullhead before."

Shavo just shook his head as he studied one of the holographic news footages with keen interest.

"Never really had an excuse to up until now." He remarked as he acted like he lost interest in the footage of some sort of festival. He didn't want to look like he had never seen something as commonplace as a TV was back on Earth.

"Seriously?" Ruby gawked at him.

Instead of answering her verbally, he just shrugged uncaringly. Inside, however, he was jumping around like a little school kid from excitement. Thank God he had a good poker face, or else he may do something stupid like squeal out in joy every five seconds.

Yeah, cause that would go over well.

"Ah well," Shavo tried to steer the conversation away from his ignorance of something as mundane to them as a car was to himself, "Looks like there won't be any actual sitting in this thing. Seeing as, you know, no seats."

"Ahh, don't be lazy!" Yang grinned as she set her bags down by a untaken part of the wall. "Standing isn't so bad!"

"Yeah, we can just…Stand here….And do absolutely… Nothing." Shavo deadpanned before grinning back at the blond bombshell.

"Orrrrr, I could do this." Yang then lunged forward and enveloped her younger sister in a hug.

"Ack! Yang, stahp!" The crimsonette pleaded to no avail as Yang proceeded to give her a bear hug.

"Awwww, but i'm still so proud of you! I can't believe my baby sister is attending Beacon with me!"

"Woah, wait, baby sister?" Shavo asked, acting like he had no idea what she meant. "I thought you could only be seventeen to enter."

"Yeah, well my sister is just so awesome that the headmaster brought her in two years early!" Yang boasted proudly.

"Jeez Yang, how about you just grab a microphone and announce it to everyone, why don't you!" Ruby elbowed her sister in the ribs to get her to shut up. "I don't exactly want people to know just yet!"

'Why not?" Shavo asked curiously as he tilted his head, still playing dumb, "That's pretty cool, if you ask me."

"Exactly!" Ruby whined before realizing she was getting loud and brought her tone down, "I just… Don't want people to look at me like I'm special or anything. Everyone worked hard to get here, and then I come in like I did."

"But Rubes, you are special..." Yang said encouragingly before bringing her in for another bear hug, "Tooo meeeeeeeeeeee!"

Shavo couldn't help but chuckle at the two's antics. Just like in the show.

"Well, I still think it's pretty cool." Shavo encouraged the girl as he stuffed his hands into his pants pockets, "Besides, if you're really worried about having a big reputation, give it a while and people will see that you're just like them."

"Well, I guess." Ruby said uncertainly once her sister had put her back down, looking slightly less frantic.

"See? Not so bad." Yang encouraged her younger sibling with an arm around her shoulder.

Shavo was going to add more onto that statement, but felt something rectangular in his pocket that he didn't recognize. Pulling it out, he saw it was a folded up scroll.

Pressing down on the diamond shaped button on the center, the device expanded to it's full form and almost caused him to drop it in surprise. Safely catching it, however, he saw a blank interface with three files in the top left, marked contacts, files, and music.

Opening up each one, he saw that none of them had anything in them. That really bummed him out, though, when Shavo realized he had absolutely none of his favorite music from Earth. All of his favorite artists, bands, singers, guitarists… and no way to listen to them.

'Man, this blows.' The Traveller thought glumly to himself as he stuck his free hand into his left pocket, 'I had all of my music on my…'

That was when an even smaller rectangular shape brushed against his hand in the pocket of his jeans. Hope flooding through him, he fumbled for the device before fishing it out of his pocket and holding it in his hand.

'My flashdrive!' Shavo thought happily to himself, a little chibi version of himself cheering on his shoulder as it threw confetti in the air. Looking around on the sides of the Scroll, he found an access port for it to go into and slid it in. After a few seconds, a small notification box appeared on the screen:

Foreign device detected. Scan files and download to Scroll? Y/N?

Tapping on the 'Y', he then saw a loading bar pop up showing the progress of the download. Looking up from his new scroll, he saw the sisters still conversing happily with each other. Everything looked just perfect for the moment.

'Not everything' A nagging voice in the back of his head chided him. Even though he didn't know what it was, something was wrong here. Something seemed to be missing.

No, wait, not something.

Someone.

"Where's Jaune?" He whispered to himself.